Evening News Briefing - 17 December 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hi there from the Amplify newsroom. I'm Renabygackco, one of
the alleged Bondai gunmen, has been charged with fifty nine offenses,
including fifteen counts of murder after the deadly attack in
Bondai on Sunday. Navida A. G Raham remains in hospital
under police guard. His father was shot dead by police. Meanwhile,

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grieving parents have returned to the scene of Sunday's deadly attack.
Matilda's mum and dad laying flowers, describing their beloved ten
year old daughter's final moments. It was she was shocked.
She was telling me that she it's hot to breathe.
I was holding it and I was like, calm down, pleasless.

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The woman who killed Camberman Matthew mclucky and a head
on crash back in twenty twenty two has reportedly been
sentenced to the maximum penalty of fourteen years jail. It's
understood the sentence comes with a nine year non parole period,
meaning she will be eligible for para role in twenty
thirty four. Canberra institutions are among the big winners in

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the nearly seven hundred million dollars extra funding for the
Act in the federal government's midyear budget update that includes
almost two hundred and twenty million to fix the roof
at the National Gallery and one hundred and nineteen million
for the War Memorial, while the CSIRO will get two
hundred and thirty three million its official Geocon's controversial plans

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to build a twenty five meter pool within a high
rise apartment complex at the Phillip Pool site have been approved.
The current fifty meter pool is set to be demolished
in stage two after the twenty five meter one goes
in during stage one, with the ice rink expected to
go during stage three. Tom Sylvanni has been sentenced to

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more than six years jail for rape, the son of
former AFL star Stephen Silvanni, received a non parole period
of three years and nine months. Judge green Lyon says
he's shown no remorse. An eighteen year old pea plater
has had his license suspended and car seized after he
was allegedly caught speeding sixty seven k's over the limit

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in Mawson on Monday. Police say he was clocked at
one hundred and forty seven k's in an eighty zone
with no PEA plates displayed. A couple of hot days
ahead in Canberra. There's an advice level warning for a
severe heat wave. The Weather Bureau's forecasting tops of thirty
seven for tomorrow and Friday, with locals urged to take

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extra care wish a hit wave warnings and we do
see at least three days of very high daytime and
nighttime time behuse. Thats exactly what we'll be seeing right
across camera and the ACT Forecaster Jonathan Howe. There police
have recovered several suspected stolen items from an O'Connor home
following the recent arrest of a sixteen year old girl.
Among the items were a laptop, portable speaker, cash and

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shoes with photos on the ACT Policing web site. And
two men have been granted bail in court today after
police allegedly found one and a half million dollars in
cash in a van they stopped at Yes for random testing.
And that's the latest from the Camberan news room this Wednesday.
Check back again tomorrow morning for our next update.